Motivational Quotes

Money

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Money

Macdonald, George

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

26.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry